President Trump also remembers Jackson as a "force of nature" with "lots of personality, grit and street smarts".

ATLANTA — People in the metro area are mourning the death of civil rights icon Rev. Jesse Jackson. His family says he died at the age of 84. Jackson touched so many lives here in the Atlanta area. He ...

My religion obligates me to be political, but my politics don’t obligate me to be religious,” said Jackson — frequently ...

Leaders in Chicago and around the world are reacting to the death of civil rights icon Rev. Jesse Jackson. He died on Tuesday morning in Chicago, surrounded by family, after a long battle with ...

July 17, 1960 - Jackson begins his civil rights activism when he and seven others enter the “whites only” public library in ...

The eldest son of the Rev. Jesse Jackson now sports thick circular glasses and graying hair. He remains a skilled orator in ...

Then-Reps. Duncan Hunter (R-CA) and Chris Collins (R-NY) were the first two House members to endorse Donald Trump in early 2016. Both men were indicted on federal charges in 2018, and both ...

Former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich, who said he knows what it's like being accused of corruption, hammered Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz for "quitting" his reelection, which the Trump-friendly Democrat ...

Illinois Congressional Republicans are urging former President Donald Trump to deny a pardon request from Mike Madigan. Madigan, the former Illinois House speaker, was convicted on multiple corruption ...

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When Donald Trump pardoned U.S. Representative Henry Cuellar earlier this month, he added to a spate of clemencies that has directly attacked a founding principle of America’s democratic republic: the ...

(CNN) — Here is a look at the life of Rod Blagojevich, former governor of Illinois who served eight years in federal prison for corruption. 1986-1988 – Assistant state’s attorney in Cook County, ...